Magpie_Oz

Wouldn't it be a series of linear strikes that are adjusted every so often?

Ironic that I had one in the back yard last week

Wego scum !

Oh no not again ! Well I guess there is no point in carrying on is there?

What did I miss?

I think AKD's photo is one of the Russian UB- 4/8/16/32 range of pods (maybe off a Hind), the other looks like a SNEB

What you really mean is like WeGo.

Great lookin' babes for sure but I can tell you one thing tho' if DO happen to be sharing a foxhole I can guarantee you that you will be the one who dug it.

My wife plays but with one fairly major draw back, if she loses then it's a good old fashion sulk for DAYS and forget about any form of sex. So either way you end up playing with yourself or playing .. with ... yourself...

Just to clear things up then, anything post 1500's is Modern being the start of the Early Modern era, anything up to about 1900 is Late Modern, then we move into "Modern Times" (WW1 and 2) after which comes the Contemporary Era which is Cold War-ish , then today we are in the Post Modern era so we are not really modern but after modern ..... I think. Sooooo the Spanish Armarda was Modern, American Rebellion Modern, Waterloo Modern, WW2 Modern, Korea Modern, Vietnam Contemporary, Desert Storm Contemporary, 9/11 Contemporary and Libyan Intervention Post Modern ??????

So what is the go with the ponies? Is it like one each or one per continent or country ?

LOL (other stuff)

I think he has some control, that would make it a semi-colon.

I'm sure if you asked nicely they'd think about it, why don't you give them a call? I'd love to see how you get on when those jolly chaps from the Department of Home Land Security pop around for a chat.

That was for an H-Bomb not a U-bomb which is a much tougher prospect as you have a fission bang setting off a fusion bang. So the allies didn't crack it in 1944-45 using computers they solved problems involved with a conventional explosive triggered implosion using experiment, brains and slide rules. I think you might find too that the calcs run using H bomb theory was a test so that would seem to indicate that they already knew the answer? Of course now we are talking H bombs it is getting closer to the predicted Multi Megaton **** storm

That's a little bit 21st century of you there. Sure there were some pretty major theoretical physics involved but the only computers used on the project were the ones between the ears of some very clever people. The real clever bit came from designing a conventional explosion that would hold the critical mass together long enough for the explosion to develop. As said before, an building an atom bomb is easy getting the Uranium and the conventional explosive to set it off is the tricky bit.

9 till 2 is not very a devout "dawn till dusk" fast, neither are beers for that matter. Next you'll be allowing your woman to walk beside you and speak !

One of the big limitations of some of the SPA is that the max elevation is much less than an infantry gun, 35 degrees in the M7 as opposed to 70 in the trail mount howitzer. I think the main thing tho is one on doctrine. The German IG's were specifically designed to be much closer to hand and were distributed from Regiment down to battalion level. The US Howitzer Companies generally stayed at the Regimental level and British Field Artillery was allocated at the Divisional level. The guns used by the allies were heavier and so not as conducive to the IG role. http://www.kerynne.com/games/GermanRegt.html

I don't really know how the IVIS works, it could be a continuous real time set up in shich case you'd know where your mates where pretty much all the time, or it could send updates every few minutes or so. It would also depend on the range of the data link, if a unit goes out of range does the last known position stay on the unit? I actually find all the question makes really annoying. I'd rather use my memory to recall where enemy units had been seen and only have displayed current info that showed a definite sighting and recognition, a sighting that had not yet been fully id'ed (like a tank but we don't know what type) and a suspected contact (like sounds or suspect movement) Dare I say it? Like CM1 used to do :eek:

No science just my experience: Depression isn't really something that comes from external sources. Reading the news of the starving in Africa might upset you but won't make you clinically depressed per se. It comes from an inability to deal with a situation that you are confronted with an inability to reconcile your situation in a positive manner - the "feedback loop". Most sufferers talk of being trapped in their situation with no seeming way out. Being Eore (Winnie the Poo ?) and full of Gloom and Doom doesn't make you depressed or even vulnerable to depression, quite the opposite in fact. The high flyer with everything going their way can find themselves rapidly in a situation they are unable to process when it is all taken away. Mrs Grumpy-Pants is used to feeling glum so she'll just plod along. I guess this is why depression is not really comparable between soci-economic status. A rich person can find themselves just as unable to deal the same as a poor person. PTSD is linked to depression but is a little different, it is more about not being able to move on from a past situation to the point where it dominates the here and now. You can be fine in general but subject to a past situation dragging you back, "haunted" if you will. To my mind being in a bad situation, like a field of Jumping Jacks isn't as bad as depression. In the minefield you might get blown up or see your mates die but in either case there is a resolution of the issue there and then, depression on the other hand has no beginning, no end, no obvious cause, and no obvious path to resolution. Think of it as a minefield that can crop up where ever and when ever you go, one that no one else can see and no one can predict or clear. In the end it is down to the sufferer to work their own way through it. For some people this is beyond them, which is why suicide is sometimes seen as a viable alternative.

USSR and China ? No real surprises that the tonnage dropped on Indochina was a lot more. Longer war, harder targets, bigger aircraft with bigger bomb loads, bigger bombs, greater involvement of air power.

They have a data link, GPS is a passive system that provides your own location not communication.

One can lead a perfectly active and healthy life and still suffer depression. Depression doesn't always come from poor body image, Oprah Winfrey and a box of chocolates. Like Aff says a holistic approach is what is needed. Anti-depressant drugs are not something you take in the morning in a gloom and by lunchtime everything is ****s and giggles, what they give you is a break which, maybe just for a little while, lifts a bit of the burden and lets you get a grip on things a bit better. A pill that says, "it's not that bad mate." It is not clear if the effect is placebotic or not maybe for some it is but my experience is that drugs can assist the treatment of genuine depression.

I know the experiments that you mean, I have been to that site as well but that was on the mainland. I've also been to the site where an "atom bomb" (actually a huge pile of TNT) was tested on jungle terrain. I saw the bomb, with Japanese writing on the side it and identified it later. I have a photo of it some where but God knows were we are talking nearly 30 years ago now.

That's because they couldn't, their bombers didn't carry enough ordnance to meaningfully attack a city Again because they couldn't didn't have a delivery system. I can say however that the Japanese did drop Mustard Gas on Australia, I have seen an unexploded Mustard Gas bomb left over from an air raid on Horn Island in the Torres Strait.